Buck, Pearl S. (June 26)
The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote The Good Earth
Famous People Born in 1892
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Cain, James M. (July 1)
Author of The Postman Always Rings Twice -
Coleman, Bessie (January 26)
The world's first licensed African-American pilot -
Haile Selassie (July 23)
Emperor of Ethiopia, 1930-74 -
Lubitsch, Ernst (January 28)
The director of Ninotchka -
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (February 22)
The poet of the 1920s who wrote "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" -
Niebuhr, Reinhold (June 21)
Christian intellectual who wrote Moral Man and Immoral Society -
Pickford, Mary (April 8)
"America's Sweetheart" of the silent film era -
Powell, William (July 29)
The star of The Thin Man series of films -
Richthofen, Manfred von (May 2)
WW I flying ace known as "The Red Baron" -
Tito, Josip Broz (May 7)
The leader of Yugoslavia, 1943-80 -
West, Rebecca (December 21)
Critic, journalist, novelist and literary celebrity